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Movies

  • Becoming Madonna.

    Becoming Madonna review – a megastar’s extraordinary ascent to pop royalty

    The singer’s journey to the top is retold through archive clips and audio, efficiently albeit perhaps too straightforwardly
  • Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian in Love Lies Bleeding

    And the 2024 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year

  • Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman stand next to each other in a still from the film Deadpool & Wolverine

    UK box office forecast to top £1bn in 2025 after year-on-year fall

  • Robbie Williams as a chimp in Better Man.

    Better Man review – Robbie Williams becomes CGI chimp in surreal biopic

  • Nicholas Hoult plays white supremacist Bob Mathews in The Order.

    The Order review – Jude Law does solid work in vehement account of white supremacists’ takedown

  • Jack Bond.

    Jack Bond, cult British director and Pet Shop Boys collaborator, dies aged 87

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News

  • Alternative View - The 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival<br>CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 11: Blake Lively attends the 'Cafe Society' premiere and the Opening Night Gala during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 11, 2016 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Vincent Desailly/Getty Images)

    Blake Lively sees wide support in lawsuit against co-star Justin Baldoni

  • Denzel Washington’s baptism on Saturday

    ‘It took a while, but I’m here’: Denzel Washington is baptised before his 70th birthday

  • Paul Hogan poses with a model of Burt during filming for Crocodile Dundee in 1985.

    Burt, the giant crocodile from Crocodile Dundee, dies aged 90

  • Golden Globe

    The Golden Globes gift bag contains gin, treadmills and a facelift – but there’s a catch

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Reviews

  • film still of man outside holding an alien head

    Venom: The Last Dance – messy sequel ends series with a shrug

  • This image released by Focus Features shows Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence in a scene from "Conclave." (Focus Features via AP)

    Conclave – Ralph Fiennes takes charge of tense papal election thriller

    The actor leads a top-tier ensemble, including Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini, in an entertainingly juicy adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel
  • Memoir of a Snail

    Memoir of a Snail – charming, poignant tale of troubled twins

    Sarah Snook and Kodi Smit-McPhee lend their voice talents to Adam Elliott’s ambitious animation that has a strong personal touch

  • Don’t Move – high-concept Netflix survival thriller has its moments

  • Smile 2 – gory pop star horror sequel sings a familiar tune

  • Anora – stellar turn from Mikey Madison in sex work non-love story

  • Woman of the Hour – Anna Kendrick directs an unsettling thriller

  • Brothers – throwaway madcap comedy wastes a host of stars

  • Terrifier 3 – killer clown is tooled up for third helping of gleeful gorefest

  • We Live in Time review – Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh charm in heartfelt weepie

  • Piece by Piece – Pharrell’s Lego biopic deserves to be a blockbuster

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Video & audio

  • Portrait of Andrew Lloyd with visual effect

    The man who caught his catfish; actor Kaya Scodelario on Skins, scares and sex scenes; and Philippa Perry on coping with the climate crisis – podcast

  • Photograph: Emily Badescu/The Guardian

    S8, Ep6: Richard E Grant, actor

    Joining Grace this week on Comfort Eating is actor Richard E Grant
  • Still of Al Pacino holding a gun in a black and white still from The Guardian

    Al Pacino tells the inside story of The Godfather, and Marina Hyde on Keir Starmer, the unforced error machine – podcast

    It’s hard to think of anyone who has squandered so much electoral capital, so quickly, for so little: Marina Hyde reflects on Keir Starmer’s first 100 days; and when Al Pacino bagged the lead role in The Godfather, he couldn’t believe his luck: in an exclusive extract from his new book, he recalls the making of the film that changed his life…
  • Mohamed al Fayed with Michael Cole leaving the High Court, London, following a preliminary hearing for the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed

    Marina Hyde on Al Fayed and Diddy’s enablers, the hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor, and Philippa Perry on embracing anger – podcast

  • James Earl Jones starred in a number of films, gave voice to legendary characters and won two Tony awards in a career that spanned more than six decades

    2:20

    A look back at the formidable career of James Earl Jones – video obituary

  • Alain Delon was an icon of 20th century cinema who lent his beautifully chiselled features to parts that included cops, hitmen and romantic leads, working for some of France’s greatest directors

    1:58

    Alain Delon: a look back at the actor's prolific career – video

  • Ben McKenzie being interviewed on stage

    The OC star Ben McKenzie on how crypto took over Hollywood – podcast

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Opinion

  • She reaches out paint-covered hands to the toddler, who is already smeared with paint

    Can’t-do attitude: why the real horror of Nightbitch is weaponised incompetence

    Chloe Laws
  • Trump and his toxic mentor … Jeremy Strong (as Roy Cohn) and Sebastian Stan (as Donald Trump) in The Apprentice.

    Golden Globes 2025: a lively list guaranteed to get under President-elect Trump’s skin

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Living legend … Liza Minnelli in 2010.

    ‘A dancer dances, even with replaced hips and scoliosis’: only one actor can play Liza Minnelli

    Stuart Heritage
  • Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba looks at camera while making a spell with her hands

    Wicked’s green skin trigger warning may feel silly – but not as silly as those crying woke

    Stuart Heritage

  • From Airplane! to The Naked Gun, Jim Abrahams was a pioneer of spoof comedy

    Stuart Heritage

  • Please don’t sing along to Wicked in the cinema – it is deeply embarrassing

    Patrick Lenton

  • Curzon Cinemas has been sold for a ‘bargain’ £3.9m – is this good news for UK filmgoers?

    Peter Bradshaw

  • ‘I miss her a lot’: Andrew Garfield telling Elmo about grief was his best work yet

    Stuart Heritage

  • Good news: there’s a new Horrible History DVD boxset out. Bad news: your children may not find it funny

    Stuart Heritage

  • Want to understand Donald Trump? Then watch macho 80s action movies

    Tom Breihan

  • A live-action version of Rugrats with CGI babies sounds nightmarish … and kind of interesting

    Stuart Heritage

  • Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to acting is welcome news – but being directed by his son might prove tricky

    Peter Bradshaw
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Interviews

  • Marisa Abela attending fashion awards at the Royal Albert Hall on 2 December 2024

    ‘It was like I’d run six marathons then they said do a seventh’ – how Industry’s Marisa Abela hit peak form

  • a woman poses in a black dress and jewellery

    Claressa Shields: ‘I’m not here for people to cry and feel sorry for me’

    The two-time Olympic gold medal-winning boxer’s life has been turned into rousing drama The Fire Inside, written by Oscar winner Barry Jenkins
  • Elle Fanning: ‘I love to shock people.’

    Elle Fanning: ‘The last thing I want to be is boring’

    Her debut at two catapulted the actress to child stardom, while taking the lead in The Great turned her into a household name. Ahead of the much-anticipated Bob Dylan biopic, she discusses subverting expectations, escaping her princess vibe – and why she could have been a tennis pro
  • Brady Corbet photographed in NYC. December 2024

    The Brutalist director Brady Corbet: ‘If you’re not daring to suck, you’re not doing much’

  • Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam.

    ‘We’re charged with propaganda, vulgarity and spreading prostitution’: the directors of My Favourite Cake

  • Jude Law photographed in London, November 2024.

    Jude Law: ‘The persona built on stuff written about me is not me, it’s this other guy’

  • Film director Asif Kapadia photographed in London for the Observer New Review by Phil Fisk, November 2024.

    ‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy

Regulars

  • Drew Starkey, left, and Daniel Craig in Queer.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Queer review – seedily terrific Daniel Craig carries Luca Guadagnino’s artificial-looking drama

  • Grand Theft Hamlet 2024; Hamlet, 2016; Hamlet, 1969; THE BAD SLEEP WELL, 1960

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best Hamlets on screen

  • Zoe Saldana as Neytiri in Avatar.

    Week in geek
    Aliens, Gollum and talking raccoons: when will the Oscars finally reward mo-cap acting?

  • E.T; Schindler's List; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Jaws

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… composer John Williams, master of unforgettable blockbuster soundtracks

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    Covid was supposed to kill cinema – but did lockdown and gen Z save cinephilia?

  • You think I’m funny? … Paul Chuckle.

    ‘To me, to uzi’: why Paul Chuckle as a gangster isn’t such a dramatic career change

    The children’s comic’s role in a drama of ‘death, deceit and carnage’ shouldn’t be a stretch for an established master of destruction
  • This ’ere and that there … Jason Bateman in Carry-On.

    Carry-On up the cockpit: we’ve got it in for the title of Netflix’s new airplane thriller

    A tense new American thriller about a plane in peril will be landing in the UK carrying unintended innuendo. Sid James might have laughed but the studio won’t
  • Ralph Fiennes in the trailer for 28 Years Later.

    Exceedingly good needle drops: why a 1915 reading of a Kipling poem is the cherry on top of the 28 Years Later trailer

  • ‘They have agency’ … Nitin Sethi and Amar Kakkad in Badnam Basti.

    ‘I thirst for you’: the inside story of Badnam Basti, India’s first queer film

  • It’s a weird booking … Anthony Hopkins as King Herod in Mary.

    Why Anthony Hopkins’ Netflix Herod is Hot Frosty 2 – sort of

  • Unseen side … Benjamin Netanyahu in The Bibi Files.

    ‘The whole foundation is rocking’: inside the explosive film about the investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu

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